Mini Gastric Bypass Tijuana
A mini gastric bypass is a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure that changes how much you can eat and how you absorb calories.
This surgery consists of creating a new stomach with a capacity of 40oz and makes a connection (anastomosis), with the small intestine, creating a new feeding circuit.
Because a mini gastric bypass restricts how much you can eat and how you process your food, it is a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure.
Meanwhile, other surgeries like gastric sleeve simply resize the stomach to help you feel full faster.
Mini Gastric Bypass also is highly recommended for patients with:
- Diabetes Mellitus
- High Cholesterol level
- Fatty Liver disease
- Acid Reflux Disease
With gastric bypass surgery there is a 65% remission of Diabetes mellitus and 100% adequate control of it in the long term.
Is a Mini Gastric Bypass in Tijuana the best option for me?
If the idea of achieving weight loss by restricting the amount of food that you consume and that does not involve having a foreign body inside of your stomach, then the gastric sleeve surgery is the best option for you.
Am I a Candidate for a Mini Gastric Bypass in Tijuana?
Our doctors will thoroughly evaluate your health and medical history to ensure you are a good candidate for this procedure. In general, there are three factors that are important:
Body mass index (BMI): Patients who get this surgery have a BMI over 40, or over 35 with weight-related health problems.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): This procedure can increase the risk of bile reflux, so patients were GERD often choose a different weight loss procedure
Lifestyle: patients have higher risk of complications if they smoke, drink heavily, or make other lifestyle choices.
Benefits Of Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery in Tijuana
Long-Lasting Weight Loss
Surgery reduces the size of your stomach by approximately 90 percent and the length of your intestines by up to seven feet. This dramatically limits how much you can eat and means your body will absorb fewer calories.
Shorter & Safer
While a traditional gastric bypass takes about four hours, a mini gastric bypass can be completed in about one hour. It also has a lower risk of complications–just 2.9 percent compared to 7 percent for traditional bypasses.
Improve or Eliminate Health Issues
The procedure can lower your insulin dependency and reverse type 2 diabetes for some patients. Additionally, it can improve obesity-related diseases, such as high cholesterol, hypertension, and other metabolic issues.
Laparoscopic Mini gastric bypass surgery is easier, safer and takes less time to perform than traditional laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. As its name suggests, the mini procedure is a simplified, less complicated form of the traditional weight loss method.
Gastric Bypass versus Mini Gastric Bypass
Laparoscopic Mini gastric bypass surgery is easier, safer and takes less time to perform than traditional laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. As its name suggests, the mini procedure is a simplified, less complicated form of the traditional weight loss method.
The simplified procedure is as successful as other surgical treatments in terms of its ability to help you lose weight, keep it off, and vastly improve your quality of life. The recovery time associated with mini gastric bypass surgery is about the same as the traditional gastric bypass.
While laparoscopic traditional gastric bypass surgery is a less invasive surgery than older methods, mini gastric bypass surgery is even more so. This is because mini gastric bypass requires less intestinal rerouting. This less intrusive technique results in a significantly shorter surgery. The procedure is also often recommended because of the minimized risk of infection and other side effects.
Meet Our Mini Gastric Bypass Surgeon in Tijuana
Dr. Andres Moreno
We are honored that you have taken the time to learn more about Dr. Andres Moreno and the passion he has for transforming the lives of his patients.
• General Surgery Mexican Council
• General Surgery Mexican Association
• Basic and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery (UNEME)
• Advanced Trauma Life Support, American College Surgeons
• Preopeperative Nutritional Support, The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)
• Clinical Immersion of hernia laparoscopica, Hospital Angeles Tijuana, Medtronic
• Program safe colecistectomy, Asociación mexicana de Cirugía (AMCG) y Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopsic Surgeons (SAGES)
• Bariatric Surgeon Certified by General Surgery Mexican Council
• Member of Mexican College of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (CMCOEM)
• Member of Mexican College of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (CMCOEM)
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Mini Gastric Bypass FAQ'S
4 weeks before surgery
- Stop smoking or vaping (smoking slows down healing, potentially it coul cause tissue necrosis and stomach leak)
- Stop all pregnancy preventive oral medication and hormonal medication at least 3 or 4 weeks (hormonal medication increase blood clots risks)
- Stop consuming alcohol
- Stop beverages with caffeine, that includes energy drink (at least 2 weeks before surgery)
- Star walking or doing elliptical for 30min daily, patients with cardiovascular or joint diseases can inflate a balloon 5 times, 3 times a day.
- Star taking a multivitamin
1 week before surgery
- Stop all NSAIDs (Aspirin, baby low-dose Aspirin, Advil, Aleve, Ibuprofen, Nuprin or any other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, this includes most arthritis medication). For headache or minor pains, you may use Tylenol (including the day of surgery)
- Regardless whether you have acid reflux/ heartburn or not, star taking Omeprazole ( 1pill 20mgs twice a day or 40mgs 1pill a day) in order to decrease stomach acidity and later acid reflux, nausea, inflammation, and swelling caused by the procedure.
3 days before surgery
- Star Full liquid diet
- The purpose of the liquid diet is to cleanse your stomach pouch an bowel from any kinds of solids; to reduce the amount of stomach acid produced, thus decreasing chances of having heart issue after surgery.
- It’s very important that you drink lots and lots of fluids during these period in order to be well hydrated for the day of your surgery
Day Trip to surgery
- Wear compression stockings (medium pressure, knee high), during your flight, practice leg muscle contraction during flight, get up and move every 45minutes, move your feet, theses are blood clot preventive measures.
- Wear comfortable clothes
- Continue the liquid diet
Surgery Day
- Stop drinking at midnight the night before surgery, if your surgery is in the afternoon your allowed to drink water during the day
- You may take medication for high blood pressure, anxiety or antidepressant as indicated by your physician early in the morning with a small glass of water
- You may brush your teeth normally
- Take a shower with soap the night before surgery or in the morning
- Take off all jewelry and contact lenses, if you cannot take your ring off, or piercing, anesthesiologist will wrap a pice of tape around it to protect your skin from burns. However in rare cases jewelry may interfere with the electrocautery machine an may need to but off.
- You may have acrylic/gel/polished nails but short (1/4 of inch). If your nails are too long, the oximeter will fall off and the nurses will have to shorten your index finger nail.
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From the first day of discharge, we recommend physical exercise appropriate to the patient, age and degree of obesity. Progressive moderate exercise (including swimming) can be performed at four weeks. Very competitive exercise should also wait 6 weeks.
Approximate weight loss: Type of Operation Lap Band: 50-55% of excess weight to be lost× Gastric Sleeve: 65-80% of excess weight to be lost× Gastric Bypass: 70-85% of excess weight to be lost Most weight loss occurs within the first 6-10 months in most patients. – “Weight loss in individual patients may vary depending on medical history and adherence to medical indications.”
Patients are usually admitted the evening before surgery. Most patients remain in the hospital for 2-3 days.
The complications of these procedures are similar to any other abdominal surgery and include bleeding, infection and obstruction. It will also depend on the associated comorbidities. However, these surgeries are no less safe than other techniques, and their risks are generally lower than leaving morbid obesity untreated.
The three types of obesity intervention that we perform require a period of adaptation in the diet after the operation. First a liquid diet is taken, then semi-liquid, soft, semi-soft and finally normal. During the period of liquid and semi-liquid diet, the patient must take “food supplements” which are purchased in pharmacies. The patient eats normally after 5-6 weeks.